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Nov 13, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Yoko Tawada |Margaret Mitsutani |Susan Bernofsky |Adam Thirlwell
In the era of the cosmopolitan languages of power, like Arabic or Latin, it might have seemed obvious that someone would choose to write in a second language. It only became something to be thought about, to be argued over and interpreted, in the era when vernaculars became nationalist instruments, and a writer was bound to their first language not just pragmatically but politically. But still: was Adelbert von Chamisso anguished by his move from French to German after the French Revolution?
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Yoko Tawada
Book makes sharp observations on times we live in, questioning idea of human body being a part of world and reminding readers of loneliness that is integral to them in an unforgiving world Rahul Singh Published 25.10.24, 10:31 AM Book: Spontaneous Acts Author: Yoko Tawada Published by: Dialogue Price: Rs 499 Spontaneous Acts, translated by Susan Bernofsky, is a novella that pays homage to a poet by weaving a moving tale about the idea of connectedness. Patrik is an unaccomplished scholar on...
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
buype.co.za | Yoko Tawada
Africa: FAA Directive On Boeing 787 Inspections to Impact African Carriers: [Business Day Africa] African airlines are among those impacted by a new directive from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which mandates fresh inspections of Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
buype.co.za | Yoko Tawada
Major WhatsApp competitor’s CEO arrested: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been arrested at an airport near Paris. – MyBroadbandMultiChoice boardroom drama brewing: MultiChoice’s corporate governance principles will be tested this week according to deputy finance minister David Masondo.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. Penguin Press, $32 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-65521-4The intense third installment in Knausgaard’s Morning Star series (after The Wolves of Eternity) teems with carnage and interpersonal drama in the wake of a new star’s appearance in the skies above Norway.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
asymptotejournal.com | Yoko Tawada |Susan Bernofsky
Yoko Tawada’s latest novel, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, presents us with the anatomy of a mind consumed by passion for a dead poet’s oeuvre. Ostensibly narrating the tale of a literary scholar mired in pandemic-era depression, the text expands into a reflection on various forms of friendship—and, one might venture, redemption—that might inhere between readers.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Asha Thanki. Viking, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-65464-4Thanki debuts with a gorgeous fantastical tale of family history and political strife, spanning from the 1947 Partition of India to the present. It’s told by Ayukta, a Brooklyn artist, to her partner, Nadya, by way of explaining why she’s hesitant to have children. Ayukta’s family has an ancient magical tapestry, and when a new family member is sewn into it, the person receives the ability to shape the future.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Carolyn Kuebler. Melville House, $19.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-68589-109-1Kuebler debuts with a pitch-perfect narrative of a small Vermont town and the intersecting lives of its residents. Some of the novel’s many characters are directly impacted by the arrival of Jim and Sarah Calper, who move to Glenville, Vt., from New York City with their teenage son, Will. Drama ensues after Will attracts attention from his classmate Sophie, a budding singer-songwriter.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Djuna Barnes. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-961341-22-7This supple collection from Barnes (1892–1982) shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions. In “A Night Among the Horses,” a groomsman falls impossibly in love with a woman who tries in vain to make him into a gentleman, and his determination to stay among his horses leads to a stark outcome.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Yoko Tawada |Matt Haig |Tony Tulathimutte |Sally Rooney
Yoko Tawada, trans. from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3793-2Tawada continues the globe-trotting, yarn-spinning, and wordplay of Scattered All Over the Earth in her inventive latest, the second in a proposed trilogy set in the near future.
